- Born
- Height5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
- Laura Donnelly is an Irish actress. Laura is known for her lead role as Amalia True in HBO's The Nevers (2021). In April 2018 she won the Best Actress award at the Olivier Awards for her performance in The Ferryman.[2] She made her on-screen debut in 2005 in the Channel 4 drama Sugar Rush. She is also known for appearing in Outlander, Casualty, The Fall, Hex, and as a main character in the Irish film Insatiable (2008). She also starred in Best: His Mother's Son, a BBC drama on the life of George Best, playing Best's sister, Barbara. She starred in Jez Butterworth's play, The River at the Royal Court Theatre, alongside Dominic West and Miranda Raison. She reprised her role in the Broadway production alongside Hugh Jackman.
- IMDb mini biography by: L Donnelly
- ChildrenChild
- RelativesSusan Donnelly(Sibling)Helen Donnelly(Sibling)Kirsten Donnelly(Sibling)Aidan Donnelly(Sibling)Connor Donnelly(Sibling)
- Laura grew up in Belfast, Ireland, and graduated from The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2004.
- Of Clan Cenél nEoghain.
- Her maternal uncle Eugene Simons disappeared on New Years Day 1981 from his home in County Down, Northern Ireland, just near the border at the hands of the Provisional Irish Republican Army at the height of the Northern Ireland conflict known as the "Troubles". Three years later, his body was discovered by a dog-walker in a bog across the border in County Louth. He was 26 years old.
- Won the Olivier best actress award for The Ferryman.
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